Hi, It might be worth asking this over in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html (http://groups.google.com/group/ comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html if you use Google Groups).
It can be hard to find, so I'll also mention that the FAQ for that newsgroup is available here: http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/ (I mention this just because it's important to read the FAQ for a newsgroup before posting to it, and I for one had a heck of a time finding theirs!) FWIW, -- T.J. Crowder tj / crowder software / com On Apr 7, 5:56 am, "s.ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure exactly where to post this, but I have a site where the > user navigates to the home page URL and the rest is all js and AJAX. > It works very well for this site (http://gemmy.calicowebdev.com) > because its sole purpose is to allow people to search for Ruby gems -- > nothing else. So most of what Google Analytics does in terms of > measuring where on the site people roost is wasted. But it's useful to > know how long they are on the site and so on. > > All searching is done incrementally with a periodic updater watching > an input element. The searches can be somewhat meaningless and don't > necessarily correspond to "clicks" in the typical Web sense of the > word. Say, for example, someone is looking for any Ruby gem that will > help them create the next great YouTube mashup. They go to my nifty > (if I do say so myself) site and they type: > > y-o-u-t > > By this time, they probably have a sufficiently precise result set > that they're on their way someplace else. > > I guess what I'm asking in a pretty roundabout way is: Is this worth > measuring in the first place and have any of you applied any metrics > to anything similar? > > Thanks, > > --steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
